J Larsen

This Cain fellow on the Giants seems like he ain't so bad. I just wish the Bonds era would end so that I could root for my hometime without mixed emotions.

I'm not picking on anyone, but I've always had a hard time understanding the ambivilance that people have expressed towards Hill, or at least the majority of his work. He is one of the top-tier greats in my book, and always has been. All of his records (especially the 60s dates) work for me - some work and some WORK, but there are no duds in my book. I guess part of it might be that he works in a lot of unusual time signatures, which is something that has never bothered me at all in any type of music. I actually learned to play guitar without the benefit of formal instruction or a metronome as a teen and was thrown for a loop when I first played with a drummer and he looked at me like I was insane... but I digress. Hill was a great musician and tremendous composer who lived a fairly long life and went out with his creative abilities intact. I can see why some people see this as sad, but in a way it is also beautiful (the cancer part does suck, though). In any event, I'll always be grateful for his music.

RVG in 2009. hopefully Rudy is still healty (and alive) in 2009!! JB He's probably redone the entire catalogue of BN & PR material already - they're just bringing them out in dribs and drabs MG What's PR?

Yes, it was the family - again, this is going back a ways but I recall them saying that it would be back in print "soon" (this was the mid-90s) with expanded/corrected notes and improved sound, which is why I didn't pick it up at the time. I've regretted that ever since.

Slightly OT - it's great that they are putting the RAH concert out officially, but when are they going to get around to re-releasing the Stages material? As I recall, when they pulled it OOP in the first place, they said it was just to improve the notes the sound. That was years ago.

Frankly, I always thought 2nd Ave Deli was kind of gross, but it was a part of *New York* and I was sad to see it go - more sad to see that its space is now occupied by an ugly anywhere USA chase branch.

Is this news? They're real cheap. Fair enough - aren't they like $40 a piece for the basic ones? Still - you can throw away $40 or invest $150 well...

They effing suck! Horrible, horrible, horrible. I'm pretty much a Fulltone/Roger Mayer/occassionally Boss guy (the digital delay pedals are fine, the rest is kind of crap). I was a little into Z Vex for a while but now I can't stand them. I have a buddy who has a Zachary overdrive pedal that is one of the best sounding things I've ever heard, but for the $200 price difference, my OCD works for me. But Danelectro.... no thanks.

I agree - except for Sweet Exorcist.

Whenever I see a Danelectro I think of -

Thanks - good to hear.

I was thinking of the same configuration. I'm just a little concerned about them being metal - I hope they don't look like office file cabinets in person. I'm also not a big fan of the locks. But overall this is the best option I've found so far.

Can you store the back insert from the cd case in the plastic sleeves? Do the sleeves protect the disc well? I might be tempted to go this route too. It's not like the jewel cases are attractive - they remind me of cassette tape cases.

That's okay - Wynton is dead to me.

5,200 is just what 10 of these bookcases will hold. I've only got about 2,500 CD's, and maybe closer to 2,000 is what I really consider "important". I did spend $500 all those cheap bookcases and lumber. But the way I look at it -- that was $500 I could have been spending on more music. In the end, I did by the bookcases and boards, and I'm perfectly happy I did (and so's my wife). But I would have been MUCH less happy if I had spent $1,000 or $1,500 (or more!!) for a more "elegant" solution, when that money could have gone towards other things. And hey, I'm a cheapskate, and proud of it. Doesn't mean I won't spend some serious money for quality in some areas (for instance, we have lots of really cool vintage Danish Modern furniture in our house, in several rooms – and some of it didn’t come cheap). But someplace to store my tunes (upstairs, where most people don’t even see them) wasn't high on my list of places to shell out a ton of cash. (I also drive a 13-year old Honda Accord wagon, that I still love, and hope I can drive another 5 years or more.) Just a matter of priorities. (And buying the cheap bookcases meant I could afford the more expensive vintage Danish Modern stuff.) I'm thinking of ordering a Can-Am unit for my new place unless anyone has had bad experiences since this thread sank to the depths and wants to warn me. I'm really tired of having walls covered with shelves filled with cds - it looks really cluttered to me. On a side note, nice chair, Rooster - I'm really into Danish modern stuff too (as well as American modern - I've got a bit of Nelson, Eames, Noguchi, Sapper, etc in my place). The next time you find yourself in NYC, you should go to ModernLink on Bond street. It is hands down the best store I've ever been to for authentic Danish modern furniture - it really doubles as a museum. It's easily my favorite furniture shop in Manhattan - their original stuff (which you can find on the web) is very cool, but the vintage stuff that they get (not on the web) is really incredible. Also, I assume you know all the really cool websites devoted to Danish design, but here are a couple good ones in case anyone else is interested: https://ext.kb.dk/F/-?func=option-update-ln...p;p_con_lng=eng http://www.dmk.dk/furniture/all/

There is a fund of hedge funds called the Man Group or something like that - always thought that was sort of odd (although I suppose it could possibly be a last name).

But I've seem them on the west coast for around $20 as well (although they may have been on tour - I don't recall) - I still think 20 grand is way high of a guess, but who knows... I think in general Zorn doesn't make a lot of money off of his public performances. But this is a wild, irrelevant and not terribly interesting tangent, I admit... just something that jumped into my head.

Sorry to dig up an old diversion to this thread, but it just occurred to me that those numbers have to be way, way high for Zorn. I've seen Masada, both the brass and string groups, several times in the past 10 years, both in and out of NYC, and only paid more than $25 or (at most) $30 once (wouldn't be willing to pay more since I'm not the biggest fan) - and that one exception was when they were opening for Cecil at J@LC, which is always expensive. Zorn (in one context or another) plays on average about twice a month in NYC, I'd say, and $20 is the usual ticket price (it is always the price for his monthly jam session at The Stone, which only seats 90). The Masada string group is playing three shows in the city over the next couple weeks and I'm pretty sure they are all $20/set. All that being said, I don't really care what musicians charge - that is their business, and it's up to me whether to go see them play or not. In the interests of being completely redundant with what has been said above, however, one can't charge $75 to $100 a ticket, which of course limits the number of people who can go see them play and hence their opportunities to play, and then reasonably complain about the resulting obscurity.

This one always makes me slightly homesick:

Atlantic N.O. Jazz Sessions Disc 1, for the first time. Holy shit the Young Tuxedo Brass Band SUCKED!!!!!!!

The Knitting Factory is 90% lame indie-rock shows now anyway, but I do suppose the city is better off with it open than not.

I'm late 90% of the time, but it is almost always because of work...